Docked PaletteSet not adjustable in AutoCAD 2015

[Anonymous]

I have an menu type app  (VB.NET. compiled with VS2010 with A2013 dll)  that uses PaletteSet and is designed to be docked horizontally between the AutoCAD drawing window and the Ribbon. Prior to AutoCAD 2015, once the palette is docked, you could manually adjust the height of the palette within the AutoCAD UI. However in 2015, this ability is no longer available. I'd like to know what has changed so I can hopefully fix it.

You can duplicate this issue with an app downloadable from the AutoCAD Devblog entitled "Drawing preview in WPF palette".

Link: http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2014/12/drawing-preview-in-wpf-palette.html

You have to added + (int)DockSides.Top) to the code _ps.DockEnabled...after compiling it, loading it in AutoCAD 2014...it will dock at the top and the palette height can be adjusted. In AutoCAD 2015, if docked at the top, the height is not adjustable. The width can still be adjusted when docked to the side but not at the top?

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this?

Thanks
Gary

[Anonymous]

I should have mentioned that AutoCAD built-in PaletteSet (Layer Manager, XReference Manager...) behave the same way in AutoCAD2015: when docked on top, it is NOT resize-able, but are resize-able when docked on other sides (left/right/bottom). Prior to AutoCAD2015, though, the PalleteSet is always resize-able regardless which side it docks. Did Autodesk change this behavior by design?

[pendean]

If your LOCKUI is not turned on, then 2015 changed the behavior: but from your two descriptions I'm not sure I follow enough to replicate.

[Anonymous]

My LOCKUI is unchanged and set to 0. Are u saying that you cannot replicate this behavior? 

If you simply dock your "Layer Properties Manager" to the top of the UI...once docked, the height of the docked window cannot be adjusted. Prior to AutoCAD 2015, this was not an issue. And it is not an issue if you dock it to the bottom.

The same is true for custom palletset dialogs that are design to be docked between the drawing window and the Ribbon. 

[pendean]

As noted by another responder, docking at the top means no vertical resizing.
Do you perhaps simply need to add the layer Pulldown to the QAT bar at the very top of the AutoCAD program window?